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Thursday, March 29, 2012

CinemaSeated on the pavement in front of the flea-pit cinema, in a state of utter dejection, was a young boy.

He was barefoot and dressed in a dirty ragged shirt and long trousers several sizes too big. He was moving his head from side to side like a depressed young panda in a zoo. At his feet were a few scraps of cooked rice on a crumpled piece of brown paper. Was he twelve years old? Difficult to tell as he was so undernourished.

"What’s your name?" I asked him in Indonesian.

There was no reply; he avoided eye contact. I asked a few more questions but got no answers. I stood back. Passers-by ignored him, or, in the case of three well-dressed young men, mocked him with jeers and insults.

At one point he stood up, a little shakily, and walked to a stall selling drinks. He held his head high, and, in a surprisingly insistent manner, held out his hand to demand a drink. The young stall holder, no trace of emotion on his face, handed the boy a glass of coloured liquid. The boy drank thirstily before returning to his patch of pavement. What was I to do?

The lad seemed like a hopeless case.

An expat's nine year stay in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The names of people and institutions are inventions. A version with longer chapters appears at http://jakarta-kid.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The purpose of an Empire is to steal money from the ordinary people and give it to the elite.

In his book, The Rule of Empires, Timothy H. Parsons explained that Empires are not there to civilise, they are there to extract wealth.

If we look at the American Empire we can see that the people who have benefited from the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq are the arms dealers and drugs dealers, rather than the ordinary people.

Empires mean slavery.

On 27 March 2012, at Global Research, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts explains how the American Empire is 'extractive'.

"After eight years of war and attempted occupation of Iraq, all Washington has for its efforts is several trillion dollars of additional debt and no Iraqi oil.

"After ten years of trillion dollar struggle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, Washington has nothing to show for it except possibly some part of the drug trade that can be used to fund covert CIA operations.

"America's wars are very expensive.

"Bush and Obama have doubled the national debt, and the American people have no benefits from it...

Empires are for the 1%

"Washington's empire extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America...

"In the New Empire success at war no longer matters.

"The extraction takes place by being at war.

"Huge sums of American taxpayers' money have flowed into the American armaments industries and huge amounts of power into Homeland Security.

"The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty...

"This is why the wars cannot end, or if one does end another starts...

"Just like the bombed and murdered Muslims, the American people are victims of the American empire."

John Buchan was once the head of Britain's secret service.

Buchan was also a writer.

In The Thirty Nine Steps, published in 1915, he considered the idea that there are secret Jewish puppet-masters who manipulate people into starting wars.

The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 adaptation The 39 Steps, a 1959 colour remake, a 1978 version, and a 2008 version for British television.

"When a company they had invested in went bust, they decided to sell off a portion of their Dublin land holdings to cover the losses...

"The land contained a mass grave.

"It was full of 'penitents', the label attached to the thousands of women locked up in Ireland's Magdalene laundries...

"It emerged that there were 22 more bodies in the grave than the nuns had listed...

"Over one-third of the deaths had never been certified.

"The nuns did not even appear to know the names of several of the women...

"All had died in the service of the nuns, working long hours in their large commercial laundry for no pay, locked away by a patriarchal church and society...

"The United Nations Committee Against Torture (Uncat) ... criticised the Irish government for refusing to acknowledge the pain and abuse suffered by women incarcerated in the laundries, the last of which closed in 1996...

"Ireland locked up more of its citizens per capita than anywhere else in the world – not in prisons, but in psychiatric hospitals, Magdalene laundries and industrial schools. Anyone who did not fit within the cruelly narrow definition of good behaviour was in danger..."

According to Greek analyst, Aristotle Vassilakis, "surveys already done that have measured the amount of natural gas estimate it to reach some nine trillion dollars."

This would transform the finances of Greece.

Tulane University oil expert David Hynes estimates that the oil and gas already discovered could bring Greece more than €302 billion over 25 years.

2. But, Greece has been forced to sell off ports and Greek state oil companies, to reduce government debt.

These sales could bring Greece perhaps €50 billion.

Foreigners may end up owning most of the Greek state-owned natural gas company, DEPA.

3. The Obama regime wants US oil companies to get the bulk of the oil and gas in the waters off Greece and Turkey, with Turkey and Greece sharing what's left.

According to a report from Greek political analyst Aristotle Vassilakis, the USA proposes that Greece get 20% of revenues, Turkey 20% and the Noble Energy Company of Houston Texas, the company already drilling in Israeli and Greek waters, would get 60%.

Bill Clinton is a Washington lobbyist for Noble Energy.

4. Noble Energy has discovered huge amounts of gas near Cyprus.

Declassified US government documents suggest that US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger helped Turkey invade Cyprus in 1974, and set up Turkish-Northern-Cyprus.

(The USA is still close to Turkey.)

Greek-Southern-Cyprus is supposedly a friend of Russia, and Israel.

Israel is planning to build a gas pipeline from the Israeli gas fields across Cyprus waters onto Greece, from where it would be sold to the EU.

(F. William Engdahl is the author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order)

The UK government is making sure that the millionaires in London and the South East continue to be 'heavily subsidised, tax cossetted and featherbedded'.

The UK government has recently 'blocked the incomes of the old to allow millionaires an extra £40,000 a year.'

In the 1990s, Scottish journalist George Rosie made a TV documentary, Scotching The Myth, showing that the UK Government deliberately 'concentrates its agencies, quangos and research institutions as close to London as possible'.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Merah never went to the mosque; he liked night-clubbing; he'd been held in a psychiatric unit. According to the mainstream media, Mohamed Merah is related to Sabri Essid who has connections to the CIA's al Qaeda. (France's Jihadist Shooter Was No Lone Wolf)

So, we cannot rule out that Merah has a connection to the security services.

"Mohamed Merah"One witness described the killer as "quite fat" and having a tattoo or scar on his face. (BBC News )w

Reportedly, Merah's mother married the father of Sabri Essid, 22, who was arrested in Syria in 2006 at an al-Qaeda (CIA) safe house for agents en route to Iraq.

Reportedly, Merah visited Essid in a French prison.

Moslems make good patsies.

MK ULTRA brainwashing was developed by the CIA as a way of producing both sex slaves and zombie killers.

The French media have reported that a mobile phone, alleged to belong to Abdelkader, the brother of Mohamed Merah, was found, or planted, near the Jewish school.

In other words, we cannot rule out the possibility that Merah, while in prison, had been brainwashed by the spooks.

In December 2007, Merah was imprisoned for 18 months.

On Christmas Day 2008 he tried to commit suicide, and was held in a psychiatric unit for 10 days.

One of Merah's childhood friends is quoted as saying: "When he came out of prison he went through a phase of dressing in a funny way, wearing bandanas, and he even had his hair styled into a pink quiff. He was all about fashion, not radicalism...

"I just cannot believe he did all that.

"He was one of us; he wasn't some religious fanatic.

"He never even went to the mosque."

The authorities appear to have protected Mohamed Merah.

A woman reportedly complained that Merah turned up at her house in full military uniform, waving a sword and chanting 'Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda!'

Reportedly, the police took no action.

Reportedly Merah travelled to Pakistan.

Reportedly the French police came to the conclusion that this was an innocent trip.

Allegedly, Merah was in possession of at least eight guns, including a Kalashnikov assault rifle and an Uzi machine pistol.

The Round Up (La Rafle) is a 2010 French film which describes how, during World War II, the French police were Nazi accomplices. Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose.

We agree with the teacher.

Merah may have been a petty criminal, but it looks as if he was framed, as part of a plot to get Sarkozy re-elected.

Most kids these days are brainwashed fascists.

Jews are some times on the same side as the Nazis? In 1938, Gertrude Stein, the prominent Jewish-American writer, spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler. In a 1940 essay, Stein wrote positively of the appointment of Nazi-collaborationist Petain as France's Chief of State, comparing him to George Washington.Gertrude Stein's Worldview

Read the story of Naeim Giladi, an Israeli agent operating in Iraq in the late 1940's.

"On May 10, at 3 a.m., a grenade was tossed in the direction of the display window of the Jewish-owned Beit-Lawi Automobile Company, destroying part of the building. No casualties were reported.

"On June 3, 1950, another grenade was tossed from a speeding car in the El-Batawin area of Baghdad where most rich Jews and middle class Iraqis lived. No one was hurt, but following the explosion Zionist activists sent telegrams to Israel requesting that the quota for immigration from Iraq be increased.

Does this look real or staged?

"On June 5, at 2:30 a.m., a bomb exploded next to the Jewish-owned Stanley Shashua building on El-Rashid street, resulting in property damage but no casualties.

Jean Dujardin, French actor.

"On January 14, 1951, at 7 p.m., a grenade was thrown at a group of Jews outside the Masouda Shem-Tov Synagogue. The explosive struck a high-voltage cable, electrocuting three Jews, one a young boy, Itzhak Elmacher, and wounding over 30 others. Following the attack, the exodus of Jews jumped to between 600-700 per day.

"Zionist propagandists still maintain that the bombs in Iraq were set off by anti-Jewish Iraqis who wanted Jews out of their country.

"The terrible truth is that the grenades that killed and maimed Iraqi Jews and damaged their property were thrown by Zionist Jews."